每日新闻（76）【日本宣布本周四起排放福岛核废水】

Fukushima: Wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday, Japan says

Japan is to begin releasing wastewater

from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from Thursday,

in defiance of

opposition from fishing communities, China and some scientists.

The prime minister

, Fumio Kishida,

has said

(

that

disposing

of more than 1m tonnes of water

(

being stored at the site

)

is an essential part of the long and complex process to

decommission

the plant

)

.

But the plan

, announced by Kishida on Tuesday,

has caused controversy

because the water contains

tritium

, a

radioactive substance

(

that can’t be removed by the facility’s

water filtration

technology

)

.

重点词汇释义：

in defiance of 无视，不顾;违抗

disposing 布置;排列;安排;使易于;使倾向于;使有意于;dispose的现在分词

decommission 正式停止使用

tritium 氚

radioactive substance 放射性物质

water filtration 水过滤

译文：

日本表示：从周四起将排放福岛核电站废水

日本不顾渔业界、中国和一些科学家的反对，将从周四开始排放福岛第一核电站的废水。首相岸田文雄表示，处理储存在核电厂的100多万吨废水是关闭核电站这一漫长而复杂过程的重要组成部分。但岸田文雄周二宣布的这项计划引起了争议，因为水中含有氚，这是一种放射性物质，该设施的水过滤技术无法去除。 来自卫报（The Guardian）